Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), June 2015

by: twog
text: Remote<p>My Fantasy Sports company is looking for an iOS developer to help us with our upcoming iphone app. We are currently working on completing the design, which we expect to be completed by the end of June. We have a RESTful API also completed, and would ideally want to complete this project in around 2-3 months.<p>For this project, I think some of the fun challenges will be:<p>* An obsessive attention to detail over design, user experience, and simplicity<p>* Working remotely with our engineering team over slack<p>* Integrating with mave.io, mix panel and other third party services<p>If you’re available to take on some work in early July, feel passionately about fantasy sports and want to work with a team that has a strong engineering culture, I would love to chat further.<p>Contact: toni@fanjam.com

by: agentinbox
text: Remote - Part Time<p>Strategic Marketing Copywriter for Web&#x2F;Mobile Application<p>We are preparing to launch a web and mobile communication platform for the real estate industry and are looking to hire an extremely talented copywriter and marketing strategist.  Coming to market with the top product in our category, we want to position our image and brand experience as a truly unique product in the space.<p>We are looking for someone who specializes in crafting the emotion of a brand in a very succinct and clear way.  We believe users don&#x27;t buy &quot;what we do&quot;, they buy &quot;why we do it&quot;, and we want someone to help us communicate this to our audience.<p>Responsibilities:<p>- Lead the marketing strategy for our launch and rollout of new markets<p>- Develop copy for marketing materials - primarily email and some print<p>- Assist in development of user on boarding process, balancing training with marketing<p>- Develop, test, and refine user acquisition, training, and retention copy and strategy<p>- Develop and lead regular publication of blog, social media, and press copy<p>- Lead the research process to discover what marketing messages most resonate with our userbase<p>This position will require 1-5 hours per week for the next year or longer.<p>Email team at agentinbox.com to apply.

by: fleaflicker
text: SEEKING FREELANCER, Brooklyn, NY, remote welcome<p>Fleaflicker is a fantasy sports platform. Since 2005, we have provided the most user-friendly and customizable fantasy sports experience to hundreds of thousands of sports fans. Currently hiring for the following freelance projects:<p>-------------<p>Experienced product&#x2F;UX designer: create and refine top-notch desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences.<p>Requirements: 
- A portfolio showcasing strong visual design and usability.<p>- Strong HTML&#x2F;CSS skills.<p>- Careful attention to interaction design, typography and layout.<p>- A track record of great communication and teamwork.<p>- Experience using the Bootstrap framework and Less (or other pre-processor) preferred.<p>-------------<p>Experienced front-end developer: build and refine our live draft application using React for views and SockJS for server communication.<p>Requirements:<p>- Experience building at least one non-trivial React.js application.<p>- Experience with Flux application architecture.<p>- Ability to write solid, maintainable javascript from day one.<p>- A track record of great communication and teamwork.<p>Please e-mail ori@fleaflicker.com with resume and availability. Thanks!

by: ocgrace
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We&#x27;re a distributed team of top-notch product managers, UX designers, and engineers (iOS, Android, Web) that help companies with mobile and big data strategy, planning and execution. Our clients include large corporations as well as startups and our engagements range from 6 weeks to 12 months.<p>We are looking for freelance product managers, UX designers, engineers (iOS, Android, Web), and data scientists to help us with our projects. Remote is OK but product managers MUST be located in US.<p>If you are interested, please upload your resume &#x2F; portfolio below:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobs.smartrecruiters.com&#x2F;?company=OrangecaffeineInc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jobs.smartrecruiters.com&#x2F;?company=OrangecaffeineInc</a><p>Or please email grace@orangecaffeine.com.

by: jparishy
text: Princeton, NJ. Local candidates only, with a liberal WFH policy<p>Hiya, I&#x27;m working on a project for a client that&#x27;s looking to expand their product to Android. I&#x27;m currently building the iOS app and overseeing the development of the backend APIs &amp; webapp. I&#x27;m looking for someone in the Princeton, NJ area that would be able to work on-site some of the time to sync up on the project at least 1-2 times a week.<p>The client-side is prelaunch so they don&#x27;t have a web presence yet, but feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Looking to get started around July 1st. Thanks!<p>You can reach me at: hello@juliusparishy.com

by: richardgill
text: Remote (London)<p>We&#x27;re looking for a contract developer to join us to work on an exciting new fitness start up. We&#x27;re developing an online booking platform and companion apps.<p>You&#x27;ll be working with two other part-time developers, we&#x27;re looking for someone who&#x27;s willing to learn, brings ideas and cares about quality.<p>Our technology stack currently includes:<p>* HTML&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;CSS (HAML&#x2F;CoffeeScript&#x2F;less)<p>* AngularJS<p>* Ruby on Rails<p>* AWS S3<p>Email: Richard@actfit.com

by: SteveMorin
text: San Francisco<p>We&#x27;re a BigData company looking for a Systems&#x2F;DevOps girl&#x2F;guy with some exposure to Hadoop ecosystem.  Other technologies used are ansible, nagios, ganglia, openstack.<p>It&#x27;s a fulltime 6 month contract till the end of the year and must be local on site in downtown SF.<p>If your interested please email me (Steve Morin) your resume at smorin at nventdata.com

by: expedient
text: Remote or Buffalo, NY<p>I&#x27;m looking for an experienced full-stack Django developer to build out a new website for me from scratch.<p>While the site is a CRUD app at heart, I think there are a few interesting technical challenges that will need to be tackled, including safely handling user provided text and picture uploads.<p>If interested, please email: expedientHN @ gmail.com

by: nochoa1622
text: SEEKING FREELANCER
San Francisco, Remote doable.<p>Looking for short to medium term contracts (2 weeks to 2 months) that are ready to ramp up within the next few weeks.<p>Our publication is looking for a full-stack developer to build a crunchbase like website. Language is up to you, we will provide an API with the data. We pay Bay Area rates.<p>Contact: nick@uploadvr.com